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The complexity of the phenomenon of architecture results from its ‘impure’ conceptual essence as a field of human endeavour. Architecture is simultaneously a practical and a metaphysical act; a utilitarian and poetic, technological and artistic, economic and existential, collective and individual manifestation. I cannot, in fact, name a discipline possessing a more complex and essentially more conflicting grounding in the lived reality and human intentionality. Design is essentially a form of philosophizing by means of its characteristic means: space, matter, structure, scale and light, horizon and gravity. Architecture responds to existing demands and desires at the same time that it creates its own reality and criteria; it is both the end and the means. Moreover, authentic architecture surpasses all consciously set aims and, consequently, it is always a gift of imagination and desire, will power and foresight.